Bad Blood

Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” is on the radio right now. Am I the only person who mistook this for Avril Lavigne?

Two postings listed in “Recent Posts” but only one in the topic?

Wait – they’re different topics? Well done Beast, you’ve managed to outweird yourself…

Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” is on the radio right now. Am I the only person who mistook this for Avril Lavigne

Am I the only one who has no idea who or what these are?

No.

I’ve heard the name Taylor Swift, and with reasonable confidence deduce from Rick’s post that they’re a singer and that Bad Blood is a song. Avril Lavigne seems likely to be a female human.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a84uCd6fYS8

Might I recommend something entirely different from up north – Bad Blood but by Roddy Hart & the Lonesome Fire:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1e12np_roddy-hart-the-lonesome-fire-bad-blood-live-on-craig-ferguson_music

I thought Taylor Swift was a cartoon character that appeared on Family Guy…

Am I the only one who has no idea who or what these are?

DigitalCD does a good job with streaming radio. Nice to accompany programming sessions. Maybe there’s a contemporary (non BBC) channel for your region here? http://streaming.ukrd.com/
(I listen to Eagle – Farnham/Guildford, the channel I used to listen to in the UK)

I thought Taylor Swift was a cartoon character

;-)

I thought she sang “country”…

Great video find David – clearly I’m not they only one that needs to look at the ShoutCast stream info to tell ’em apart…

I thought she sang “country”…

“Preston music” :)

Country and Preston?

What I still don’t know is whether Old King Cole played a very fine fiddle himself, or whether the fiddlers three had fine fiddles that were not merely fine but very fine.

Wiki gives words as follows:

And he called for his fiddlers three.
Every fiddler he had a fiddle,
And a very fine fiddle had he;

I would interpret the sentences as following on, so the fiddlers each had fine fiddles. This can be supported by the use of the singular “he” for the multiple fiddlers in the second line.

However, the unusual use of the singular does indeed make it ambiguous in that the king could well have had three fiddlers and he himself the finest fiddle.

I’m going to stick with my (first) interpretation. I’ll leave it to more scholarly people to apply for large research grants to determine whether or not the king had a fiddle…….

Country and Preston?

Long shaggy dog style joke. Club has regular entertainment from a local organist/entertainer but he gets sick so they bring a C&W group. Announcement made early that they will have “some country and western” is heard by a part deaf member and he explains to late arriving friends the the regular organist, Reg, can’t make it and has been replaced by “some c*** from Preston”

Rick: not quite the words I know, which are:

And he called for his fiddlers three
Every fiddler had a fine fiddle
And a very fine fiddle had he

but the ambiguity is much as you describe in either case. You have my thoughts precisely.

Steve: I rather suspected it was something like that. Thanks!

And he called for his fiddlers three.
Every fiddler he had a fiddle,
And a very fine fiddle had he

Sounds like a case of sexual harassment in the workplace to me :/

I’m your wicked Uncle Ernie?

Who? ;-)

Exactly.

Deleted.

No it’s not! Still readily available… 8~)